Observed arrival · 2026-09-20
Panopticon’s Hourly Prison Shift
An open-ended AI simulation puts eleven agents—one warden, three guards, and seven prisoners—inside a shared prison block.
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- Readers of emergent AI behavior and social simulations
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- Each shift assigns one warden, three guards, and seven prisoners only roles and temperaments.
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The project frames its agents as a small prison society with fixed roles but no authored storyline. Its stated mechanism combines each character’s temperament, four underlying numbers, and the immediate behavior of the other agents. The homepage says shifts begin on the hour and are synchronized for viewers, while possible endings include orderly control, a riot, or a condition in which nobody resists.
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